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various kinds of worms are bred in the human bedy, 
in almoft every part. The queftion how? in many 
cafes, is very difficult to be anfwered, notwithftand- 
ing the faét may be certain. . 
_ The pelt-ret, or falling of of the hair or wool, 
arifes, 1ft, From a fudden alteration from a {canty. 
to a full feeding:—2dly, From a partial fever in 
the {pot where it falls off, on the neck, fhoulders, 
the back, or the tump:—3dly, The /had, loofening 
it at the ground -—4thly, Gangreen, or fphacelus, 
which the falling off of the wool difcovers. 
The fvot-rot, or by fome called the gout, is 
faid by moft farmers and’ thepherds to be infegi- 
ous. The beft information I can get concerning 
this, is, that between the claws of the fore-feet (as 
Ido not find it attacks the hind-feer) a {welling is 
perceived, which tends ro feparate the claws in fome 
degree. On fqueezing or lancing it, a hairy worm 
is taken out—the place being anointed with fome 
ointment, and bound up for a few days, the cure is 
effected. . 
The hunger-rot generally proceeds from the far- 
Mer’s poverty, or covetoufnefs, in giving very bad 
hay for their winter provifion, which they donot 
€at; and is very cafily difcerned by a flight infpe@ion 
of the flock when in fold. 
The goggles, adiforder unknown to our anceftors, 
but, by comparing the different accounts of the ef- 
fetts together, appears very plainly to me, to bea 
paralytick 
